Word: neutrality
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...Republic. From the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 to the 1924 Immigration Act - which used quotas to limit immigration from Southern Europe (read: Italy) - to the debate during World War II on how many Jewish refugees the U.S. should take in, we have never managed to have an ethnic-neutral, origin-neutral discussion of immigration reform. It always becomes about keeping out "those people." The present debate is no different, just because the people we're most eager to keep out have brown skin and speak Spanish. One of my readers is, at least, honest about it. His e-mail...
...Movement, ending decades of isolation from the humanitarian group; in Geneva. Since 1949, the Israeli agency had been excluded for refusing to wear the Movement's official red cross or red crescent symbols because of their religious connotations. Last week the international group adopted a new official emblem, the neutral red crystal. It also amended rules excluding non-sovereign states from membership, enabling the Palestine Red Crescent Society to join...
...gets involved in high-level Kiev politics. He learns that his penguin has ended up in Chechnya, and heads to the volatile region to save his feathered friend. There, he ends up slaving for a Chechen boss in a makeshift crematorium that is the region's only neutral zone because it accommodates the dead from both sides of the conflict. Although he eventually returns home with Misha, Viktor and the penguin soon have to flee from a Kiev mafia boss turned parliamentarian. Their escape route involves a yacht trip to Argentina with a Bosnian-Serb family wanted as war criminals...
...going to get anywhere without effort." Because Etonians themselves now expect to work hard, having the school on your résumé doesn't raise the same worries it did 20 years ago. "No one has to live it down," says Viney. "Employers are pretty neutral." The "Eton burden," if there truly ever was one, appears to be getting lighter. Cameron is the first Old Etonian to lead a major British political party for 40 years; those seeking other role models in public life can look to the Old Etonians who have run Amnesty International, Greenpeace and Friends...
...which started out as a good thing to eat and then became a bad thing, now turns out to be a collection of very different things, some good, some bad, some absolutely neutral. It's a pattern that has been repeated for a variety of cardiovascular risk factors. It's not pretty; the tortuous progress of scientific discovery rarely...